Edward ('Ed') Ball is a songwriter, singer, guitarist and keyboard player from north London. In 1977, Ball and fellow London Oratory schoolfriends Dan Treacy and Joe Foster formed a band, which toured and released under a number of names (Teenage Filmstars, The Missing Scientists, O' Level) before settling on the name Television Personalities. Following a brief parting with Rough Trade, they launched their own label Whaam! Records, later renamed Dreamworld following a legal dispute with George Michael.
On leaving the Television Personalities, Ball concentrated on The Times , a band with an ever-changing lineup in which he remained the only constant member, released seven albums. Three more albums as the dance machine Love Corporation, one by the Conspiracy of Noise, and miscellaneous side projects like L'Orange Mechanik, and for a time made his living playing in the Boo Radleys in the mid-90s, and working as a Creation Records staffer, running a short-lived Creation sublabel, named Ball Product. Uff!
Eclectically clever musicman with no agenda, only the recreation of his favs musical eras.
... the highlights of my album collection were pretty lean - David Bowie 'Images 66-67', Kraftwerk 'Autobahn', Wizzard 'Wizzards Brew', Mothers of Invention 'We're only in it for the money', Pink Floyd 'Piper at the gates of Dawn', Alan Price 'Lucky man' and Bob Dylan 'Blood on the tracks'. That pretty much defined me for the next twenty-odd years. But I didn't just want to listen to this stuff, I wanted to play it. Ed Ball http://www.creation-records.com/
On leaving the Television Personalities, Ball concentrated on The Times , a band with an ever-changing lineup in which he remained the only constant member, released seven albums. Three more albums as the dance machine Love Corporation, one by the Conspiracy of Noise, and miscellaneous side projects like L'Orange Mechanik, and for a time made his living playing in the Boo Radleys in the mid-90s, and working as a Creation Records staffer, running a short-lived Creation sublabel, named Ball Product. Uff!
Eclectically clever musicman with no agenda, only the recreation of his favs musical eras.
... the highlights of my album collection were pretty lean - David Bowie 'Images 66-67', Kraftwerk 'Autobahn', Wizzard 'Wizzards Brew', Mothers of Invention 'We're only in it for the money', Pink Floyd 'Piper at the gates of Dawn', Alan Price 'Lucky man' and Bob Dylan 'Blood on the tracks'. That pretty much defined me for the next twenty-odd years. But I didn't just want to listen to this stuff, I wanted to play it. Ed Ball http://www.creation-records.com/
The TV Personalities Smashing Times describes a weekend in London with true banality, weak chorus but neat guitar splashes, played with a minimum of elaboration but a maximum of enthusiasm and earnestness and the later lo-fi aesthetic. These mark the beginning of the D.I.Y. pop underground that led to the Pastels, the Marine Girls, the C-86 movement, Sarah Records, and other institutions of British indie pop, and it sounds as fresh now as it did when was recorded.We started the Television Personalities because WE'D KILLED Elvis . . . He'd become fat, redundant and useless. We were young, spunky, good-looking and very, very talented and launched a musical revolution from the common room of the ultra-strict London Oratory school.. Ed Ball www.creation-records.com
Teenage Filmstars I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape is a loving pastiche of sunny Carnaby Street-era pop song, a mod killer number that later was re-recorded by The Times.
...We applied the ideology of our favourite 60s groups to the chassis of our primitive punk beat. We’d never heard the sound outside our own heads and were keen to live it as O Levels, Personalities or Filmstars. Ed Ball www.poptones.co.uk
...We applied the ideology of our favourite 60s groups to the chassis of our primitive punk beat. We’d never heard the sound outside our own heads and were keen to live it as O Levels, Personalities or Filmstars. Ed Ball www.poptones.co.uk
The Times Manchester came out in E-1989, the acid house summer in Great Britain, a shameless record that recalls his various abilities to humourise fads and trends.
E for Edward, Energy, Easygoing, Excitment: Everything you want for a friend.
B for Big Smile, Beautiful Manners, Boo, Baby.
Wrote songs about Mersey, my kid.
B is for Ball and Balls=Spunk=LIFE!
Pete Wylie.
E for Edward, Energy, Easygoing, Excitment: Everything you want for a friend.
B for Big Smile, Beautiful Manners, Boo, Baby.
Wrote songs about Mersey, my kid.
B is for Ball and Balls=Spunk=LIFE!
Pete Wylie.
In 1995 Creation Records issued a two-disc compilation of Ball's material, and two albums of solo material were released to coincide with it. Following the collapse of Creation in 1999 Ball was not signed to any other label and disappeared from the public gaze, to concentrate on experimental film documentaries. In 2004 Ball rejoined the Television Personalities, and continues to play occasional shows under the name of The Times. Ed Ball - Another Member Of The Mill Hill Self Hate Club [Cds Creation Records 1995]
This a sample of the Wonderful World of Ed Ball, now discover it.
This a sample of the Wonderful World of Ed Ball, now discover it.
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